dozens of hostages seized by al qaida linked insurgents are reported dan'l jury following a botched rescue by the country's military. and the prices on jury of causes david cameron to once again delay a much anticipated speech on the u.k. future within the european union. and as israel gets ready to go to the polls prime minister benjamin netanyahu struggles to maintain support for his reelection bid.

it is one pm in the russian capital you're watching r t with me wearing the joshua welcome to the program. algeria says there are a number of dead and injured following a hostage rescue attempt at a gas plant near its border with libya there are also reports indicating that at least thirty captives and eleven militants have been killed in the operation by the country's military. linked group occupy the plant on wednesday claiming the hostage capture which included manning foreigners was in retaliation for french military intervention in neighboring mali french president francois hollande said the situation means the operation to oust islamic militants is justified fighting continues across molly with paris increasing its presence on the grounds to four thousand five hundred troops that has pledged to help train the mali an army while the u.s. also promised logistical support but stopped short of deploying its own military author in the store in jolt horan says the fall out from the weak old intervention

could eventually backfire and result in president obama being forced out of office . what mr old law is doing is enlarging and worsening an existing problem what's striking is that mr sor cozy had initiated this intervention in libya and part raises for it being a popularity ratings i think that it's fair to say that mr mccoll on this intervention in mali for similar reasons the problem is that when the body bags returning to paris the populace will turn on mr along with a vengeance and he will be driven from office just as surely as sort of the what's driven from office i think that this war and the consequences want to spread into neighboring countries is going to jeopardize french uranium interest in nigeria it's going to jeopardize the kinds of agreements that france and the other north atlantic countries have with algeria in terms of natural gas so i think that if

they had thought through what they were getting themselves into they would not have moved in the direction of an invasion i dare say that this french intervention in mali will end in tears meanwhile the situation in algeria has caused british prime minister david cameron to indefinitely postponed his much anticipated speech on the u.k. status within the e.u. excerpts released from the statement say there is a danger that europe will fail and that there is a looming possibility of britain leaving the block and last reforms are carried out r.t. sarah first says by delaying the speech cameron has put himself into an increasingly tight spot. this long awaited fourth speech is now being put back the prime minister saying that this is cheetah the own growing crisis at the algerian gas plant now obviously we see the situation there developing and the prime minister saying that it's a very dangerous very fluid situation but i think the prime minister really insists

circumstances certain cells for a phone with these lessons of wide open to the criticism here we saw this speech arranged through right back last year around gene time it's been put back four times already. various different reasons at one point the prime minister having jokes comparing the speech to tantric sex saying it is the best so when it actually comes you know that's not looking particularly funny anymore and people wondering when if indeed it will ever come well everyone was looking for from this speech was clarity leadership over this issue we've been speaking to a lot of the british public over the past few weeks and they're very confused about what cameron stance is on europe one n.p.r. was speaking to said despite this is the tail that's wagging the dog that this hard core group of euro skeptics within his own party were really dictating the prime minister's actions and i think it's really going to want. to be free to do so from the corner where he's got to have a referendum after an election and he will try

a school for politicians to use through paper over the cracks to give a bit to them a bit to the hand and say that we now are looking for europe to make a response to our proper request david cameron as prime minister he's definitely in a tight spot right now he's he's not looking particularly strong he's not looking like he's led the way and so you know he is a lot of trouble here we've seen the speech today once again so the uncertainty continues i'm afraid. pakistan's government has reached a deal with a muslim cleric to hold mass protests in the capital islamabad tens of thousands of qadri supporters and at a sit in after he convinced authorities to dissolve parliament before march had elections after that voting should take place within ninety days they've also agreed to discuss electoral reforms however quandaries demand that's the army be consulted on the structure of the interim administration was rejected political

chaos and growing few worry over widespread corruption also deepen after the government clashed with the country's top court its order to arrest the prime minister over a corruption case has been rejected professor paul sheldon food from california state university says quandaries message raises a lot of questions he's been able to keep his. campaign talks very big he says he believes in supporting minority rights and i haven't heard him condemn the murders. shiites by in large numbers a claim to have been a professor of constitutional law says that only he can understand what the prophet mohammed meant and this is a man thought of trying to do actions the people who wrote pakistan have always depended upon the west particularly the british but there are programs to such as america. and to have the indication you have both international support

and some money. is always a good indicator when you're running against the wealthiest families and part of the earth the you watch and results don't care about the way he was your claim it was a rupture of the process the only a man such as him could run a real islamic democracy process but instead is already an islamic republic. used to be very precise about why he regards it as a failure or simply citing corruption is not enough. mass rallies staged by the influential cleric in pakistan and only added to the country's uncertainty seeking electoral reforms democracy in a bar on corruption to here can dream has called for revolution before the deal was reached r.t. has talked exclusively to protest leader who told us exactly what it means by that . when i say we should keep in your mind in egypt in

tunis in libya and all these countries deal will lead to the dictatorship for years and years for a long time. that people stood up against that indeed on there was a win at aquia rule of shane shah that people stood up against that. the stunt is bit different there is no one else rude neither monadic ilu nor the military dictatorship here is electoral authority did twenty billion is elected not to get it shipped to democracy does not exist indecl citee neither in political field nor in social feed nor in economically low democracy so this is a lot less and less total chaos and an oddity in this country government is totally dysfunctional. saw that this is the single nation a single country in the whole muslim world having a nuclear capability and if the same situation continues that would be a very big disaster if we could come to the level of collapse so out of this martin

movement is anti corruption to educate our society from corruption and this is need of the whole muslim world and old total world and developing muslim countries the have to get to get out of corruption and corrupt leaders. you can see our interview with pakistan's top cleric in full at our dot com here's a glimpse of what else you can find there today. watch online food showing how a fire man in russia was almost knocked for me as latter by a huge slab of snow after his lucky escape he continued to save the lives of women and baby trapped in the apartment born on our website. and not a saint to be beautiful atop that again cleric graces the cover of vanity fair for more on the story and much more had to. have the twenty second of january election israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has to

deal with plummeting poll figures with many viewing its politics as not radical enough although still expected to return into office netanyahu is losing supporters to his former right wing allies as artie's policy you're now retorts. he's the surprise success story in campaign one tween millionaire who says a palestinian state would be suicide for israel naftali bennett used to work for prime minister netanyahu but now he's working to take you supporters away from him like this man who used to be a diehard supporter of netanyahu so he could party until these elections rolled around the likud is. a bus full of right wing members of knesset with a left wing person in the bus as far as being i mean. even though i am opposed to a state. i would say most members of the likud obviously a minute is for it the irony is that while the world sees netanyahu as

a right to leader at home he's losing face among supporters for not being focused enough this is part of the right wing campaign he's up against there are some things we all know one never happened the sopranos never returning for another season. and a peace agreement with the palestinians will not happen promises like this have been a jewish home party in food position it's poised to take more than ten percent of parliamentary seats analysts say little yahoo was still expected to serve another term is running scared he's up his rhetoric i say in the most clear of terms the western wall is not occupied territory i don't care what the un says we will build in jerusalem because it's all right not on your hands he could muster has grown even more want when i was ready because like this woman high up in the pecking order. but the league would be taken apart it is a party with values the state of israel is

a state of the jews paternal capital jerusalem. but what would be the implications of such rhetoric after the elections many israelis are asking themselves. about the day after will netanyahu become more rightwing and risk drawing israel into conflicts with its neighbors or will he back down and risk losing face among his supporters speaker shack is hoping for the latter that netanyahu will listen to world opinion and reach a compromise with the palestinians he knows all too well what the current cycle of violence can bring speakers daughter was killed in a suicide bombing seventeen years ago. that we don't have unfortunately in the center and the left a leader who is significantly charismatic to lead this country and give its people hope and the left is also divided but i do think netanyahu will find a way to compromise because of world pressure but that compromise won't come easy

enough to be bennett solution to the israeli palestinian conflict is to annex most of the west bank while allowing palestinians limited self rule in the west and while that might not seem a possible idea to most of the international community it's exactly what his constituency wants to hear a fact netanyahu is acutely aware of policy r.t. tel aviv. while we're just days left until israel had to polls to choose its next parliament r.t. will be closely following the election campaign and vote providing you with in-depth coverage. how will tension with to run develop will settle that expansion isolate can there be peace with gaza what's next in relations with america will netanyahu survive his snap election on january twenty second. israel decides. still in shambles survivors of a tell we're super storm sandy are struggling to get their lives back to normal and they say they are getting little help from us and the worries we'll be hearing

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welcome back you're watching r t live from moscow the artistic director of the ballet company of russia's most famous fear the bolshoi has been seriously. injured in an acid attack as he was returning to his home in central moscow sergei filin is now in hospital undergoing treatment for severe burns to his face and eyes i just joins us now with all the details of the incident and actually what do we know about the attack so far well there's always been some infighting in the artistic circles about a better role or a prima ballerina position but definitely the bolshoi has never found itself in the criminal headlines so you feel in the artistic director of the bolshoi theater walked away from his house this morning he was approached by a man who called him by his name when he turned around to face the man the assailant threw a ball of acid into his face so gay feeling was delivered to

a hospital and reportedly now doctors are fighting to save his eyesight but it would take at least six months according to the doctors for him to fully recuperate from this attack according to the press secretary of the bolshoi sergei filin has been intimidated for several months now he has cost tires were slashed his facebook page was hacked just a few days ago and he also received some threat calls on his mobile phone but clearly even the people in the bolshoi have no idea who could have attacked the artistic director of the theater who has been there for more than a year now ever since the bolshoi reopened with a grandiose new design a new style the law enforcement agencies have now started a criminal investigation into the case but definitely this story is shocking especially given the fact that today is both choice i one hundred eighty eight birthday and such

a tragic day for one of its key figures is definitely making the headlines now in russia. well i see as you said there the investigation is ongoing now well so far we've heard that there have been reports of some conflicting interest at the bolshoi theatre and in fact feeling could be the victim of some of the infighting that you mentioned earlier what more can you tell us well as i've said there's always been some kind of infighting inside the theater but still nobody has any idea who could have done that the investigation is promising to be a thorough one with many obviously will be questioned and suspected of that but clearly it is a very early to say who could have done that such a very shocking especially that there's been no previous record of anything like this in the bolshoi theatre or adelaide say as you said investigation is going on and will probably be knowing more details later but thanks very much indeed for that. there are now a probe into the activities of russia's former defense minister has led to

a criminal case being launched on closer to cough will be investigated over allegations of abuse of power the probe has already revealed that some top to fans officials ordered soldiers to landscape of gardens at a vacation base belonging to the former the finance minister's brother in law the defense ministry has been at the center of a major corruption scandal for several months now and it's always there to lost his job and of amber and has been a witness in a number of fraud cases involving his former subordinates what you know if you live from moscow now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world a string of roadside bombings in shiite muslim regions of iraq has raised the death toll to at least sixty people since wednesday an extended deadly wave of bloodshed into a second day the deadliest of the attacks targeting she had muslim areas kill at least seven people after two car bombs exploded near shia pilgrims traveling to the shrine in a city north of baghdad although there was no immediate

a claim of responsibility such attacks are a tactic of sunni insurgents seeking to undermine the shiite led government. saif gadhafi the son of former a libyan leader moammar gadhafi has appeared in court in libya for the first time since his capture more than a year ago he is facing charges of handing secret data to an international criminal court lawyer putting the country's security in danger the trial of saddam be linked to a deal with the i.c.c. that once him extradited to the hague to face trial for war crimes meanwhile former french president nicolas sarkozy is denying claims by science that he received millions of euros in financial support from khadafi during an election campaign. huge bushfires burning out of control across to use trillian state of victoria the blaze that started the national park destroyed up to forty five thousand hectares and is now predicted to move fast in

a northeasterly direction carried by strong winds several homes have been raised and the mallee fires still remain on contained prompting fears of more to come the wave of bushfires hit australia nearly two weeks ago sparked by soaring temperatures that reached over forty degrees centigrade. the us northeastern states ravaged by superstorm sandy in late october have been promised or a fifty billion dollars aid by lawmakers senate is yet to approve the measures passed earlier this week in the house of representatives despite manny opposing the bill and while politicians are bickering over cash the storm survivors are left with almost no support in a situation and are reports. a gorgeous beach turned coast area. the rockaways in queens one of the places hit hardest by hurricane sandy to want to have months ago still in shambles today miles

and miles of devastated businesses residential buildings and houses like this one a place some family probably used to call home now almost literally hanging by a thread with almost zero chance of ever being rebuilt few locals on the collapsed boardwalk most of them in dire need of help this man who chose to remain anonymous to to government related work survived hurricane katrina his hopes of recovery post sandy are meager aid never going to move you still go parts of alabama louisiana mississippi where they got hit with katrina. other areas they've been touched yet after sandy hit and lead october he spent over a month with no electricity heat or hot water and thirty degree weather bamer three times i feel the creation of three times i got sore politicians have the crew are the folks here that put them in office the least on the a list money works better

in your pocket than is spending it on something that may get washed away again i had to replace my. hot water heater retired local roberta hof was currently burning building her walls floors emma stairs says the destruction after the hurricane has been immense we don't have a movie theater we don't have the hospital it's gone the banks and finally opening now it's two and a half months it looks like as after a war or after knowing in afghanistan or something. and most of the help in hurricane affected areas has come from volunteers i didn't see too much of the red cross to be truth it was volunteers who have often been affected by sandy themselves like amun use of from staten island actually it was like a flood on top of it that's how much it was the water his house deemed unsafe after the hurricane is about to be demolished the only think we need is the fronts of the phone this month to get help you know we we get in like two percent so we're going

to get the ninety percent that's a mystery we need a check from god that's what we've been for a month and a half a man lived in this tent where he also set up a help center for the community somewhere a lot of people coming here still a lot six seven hundred people. a day six seven hundred yes yes. all of these people victims of sandy everybody around here go up to them they'll tell you the same thing they said you know they handed me a sandwich and a blanket and i was in water up to my chest and they said hey see you later oh by the way i want to exit the truck occupy sandy a child of the occupy wall street movement has been a big part of the recovery effort to even praised by the n.y.p.d. what we have is a lot of people coming in here and not knowing where to turn and some of them are in tears and you know it's very hard to tell them that help is coming and you hear all this talk about that the nine billion if you would think that would be a big help if it actually got to communities while politicians seem to have perfected the skill of arguing over how much cash to spend on relief aid getting

money and help to ordinary people who needed right now is clearly a skill that is yet to be learned just to see churkin our party new york. well and find out about the trials of a russian man left to care for his children after the death of his wife leave it to dad is right after the break here in our team. do we speak your language anything about the will not advance. news programs and documentaries in spanish what matters to you breaking news a little turn it into angles couldn't stories. you hear. that troy all teach spanish find out more visit.

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